What I’ve learned about changing the world

Surrounded by old mothers, new mothers, and mothers-to-be this Mother’s Day weekend, I found myself pretty much locked in to talk of babies and children. Since my younger sister, due in under five weeks, won’t know her baby’s sex until it’s born, that was also a common topic of conversation.

“I can’t even buy clothes at a rummage sale, because everything is so gender-specific,” she said as we passed by an unusually large number of rummage sales last Saturday in my home town.

She’s convinced wit...